Ancient India contains the clearest and most vivid traces of paleocontact …
We know a lot about the Harappan civilization (although not as much as we would like!), At the same time, the pre-Harappan civilization, covered with a halo of myths and legends, remains, in fact, behind a veil … Although at one time it was a huge state, it (civilization) occupied an area of about 800 thousand square meters. km, which significantly exceeds even the territory of the early states of Mesopotamia and Egypt. At least, we managed to find its material traces and prove that already 9 thousand years ago (and earlier) there were already human settlements. The Aryans who migrated from the north due to climate change mixed with the southern, Dravidian culture …
Archaeologists have discovered in the Indus Valley traces of an even earlier civilization that existed before the Harappan for about a thousand years. “During the excavations, we saw perfectly preserved all cultural layers from the phase of the previous civilization of the Indus Valley (9000-8000 BC) to the level that we classified as early (8000-7000 BC), and then the mature Harappan civilization (3500-2200 BC),”said Anindya Sarkar, head of the ASI Department of Geology and Geophysics.
“We have restored what is arguably the oldest pottery in the world using optically stimulated luminescence technology from pottery shards left by this culture 6,000 years ago, as well as from excavations of cultural layers over 8,000 years old,” Sarkar confirmed.
Unfortunately, more specific information about the pre-Harappan civilization and traces of its life has not yet been reported. But it was then (9000-6000 millennium BC) that the most interesting events took place - close contacts with the "gods", the appearance of "demigods" and giants, battles with giants, rapid climatic changes and much more …
The scientific world learned about the Harappan civilization (3500-2200 BC) in the 60s of the XIX century, when near the small town of Harappa in Punjab, during the construction of road embankments, samples of stamp seals typical for this civilization were found. The unusual artifacts drew attention to the officer of the engineering troops Alexander Cunningham, later the first head of the Archaeological Service of India, who is considered one of the founders of Indian archeology.
In particular, the Vedic texts speak of three great rivers of their time - the Ganges, Jamna and Saraswati, but now there are only two of them, so for a long time Saraswati was considered a mythological river. But in our time, thanks to geological research and satellite photographs, scientists have been able to prove the existence of this ancient river in northern India. Its bed began to dry out about four thousand years ago due to the shift of tectonic plates, which changed the course of the tributaries of the river and deprived it of recharge with glacial waters flowing from the Himalayas.
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